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It's a 1978 copy of a well know and very litigious american make. No distributors of that have been around for a long time I think i will leave it here with a friend until my next visit. Hopefully next time i will have less luggage and will manage to put it on the plane.

Would you use a guitar/bass shipping box over a hard case?

Hi, I'm in Japan on a long business trip, and i've "accidentally" bought a lovely old MIJ bass that I want to take back to the UK with me. I've managed to get an old hard case for it, but it is not the original one and the fit is ok. Unfortuantely it is a neck-through construction bass,otherwise i would have detached the eck and made my life simpler... I think I have two options, really: * take it with me on the flight back, pay the excess baggage charge, and hope it is handled sufficiently delicately in transit * send it over as a parcel before i go back Does anyone have any recommendation for shipping services they've used from Japan? I'm looking at good old Japan Post and Yamato Transport right now. Cheers, Marco

I'm a mediocre drummer and i've been getting advice and kit (sticks and a kick drum pedal) from DrumCentral in Edinburgh. They're local to me, so i enjoy the popping in to look at some of the stuff they've got when i buy a new drum key or sticks etc

What kind of help would you need? Technical, setup, anything else?

I've just returned from where the bass is kept, and managed to get a few pictures with a tape measure (cms not inches). As you can see the original bridge is a mess to work with, also because the long screws that lengthen and shorten strings are so long that with anything other than high action the screw touches the string... Any suggestion for a suitable replacement bridge?

Quite right. Unfortunately I'll have to wait until next time i go back to italy. Haven't manage to take it over to sunny scotland yet, courtesy of Brexit and restrictive airline carry on luggage policies

In case anyone is interested, i did manage to get the pickup rewound. It took nearly a year and a half, despite identifying a local electronics specialist who was apparently keen to do the job. I'll spare you the gory details of how much effort it took to get the person to actually do the job, so i'll just say that it now plays very well on both pickups and i'm very happy with it electronics wise. Newtone strings went on it, as recommended. Also happy with that. Unfortunately, the bridge is proving really difficult to adjust, so I'm considering swapping it out for another one, and keep the original. Any recommendation for something that keeps with the vibe of the thing?

Powerline adaptors are really bad for jitter. You can expect to see a huge drop in jitter and therefore in overall delay by using ethernet. You will be able to keep the buufer on auto and get low numbers still. I also found that using small network buffers and 2.67ms buffer delay made a huge difference. My normal overall latency from Edinburgh to AWS servers in London is around 27ms.

We only used the WHD kit for one gig, and it worked perfectly well for that. Our drummer replaced the kick drum head with a better quality one, and he said that that made a lot of difference. Of course the volume and depth of sound of a kick drum with no shell will always be lower, but it is totally adequate for small gigs. The entire kit fits in a large backpack cymbal carrier and a small gym bag, and the stability is probably better than the pearl's. At the time of buying it was the drummer who insisted we bought the cheaper WHD kit, as he thought the setup looked more stable, and the quality of the drumsheads was probably what made the pearl kit more expensive. As he was going to change them anyway, he recommended we bought that one from Gear4Music. I think he was right

my experience is that powerline adapters add around 5ms to the ping time, and a significant amount of jitter, but they're better than wifi. Nowhere near as good as ethernet though.

Excellent transaction as usual - quick and simple negotiations, frequent and clear communication, high quality shipping and perfect packaging. And extra strings

my normal overall latency to cloud servers in the UK is around 30ms, which i find pefectly adequate for my playing.

I'v found that playing with around 60ms latency gives my bass playing a good reggae/dub feel

Interesting point. I would recommend the opposite, which is to only turn off direct monitoring and only hear the return signal from your instrument. In that way you can adjust your playing to compensate for latency. Of course that doesn't work for singing or acoustic instruments